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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Democracy And Social Ethics (The Works Of Jane Addams)	Jane Addams	Published in 1902, Democracy and Social Ethics is Addams' first book. Originally a course of lectures delivered at “various colleges and extension centres” most of its contents were likely composed …	OL1106690W
Only yesterday	Frederick Lewis Allen	A social history of the United States during the "roaring twenties." Examines American individualism and the decade that they knew Mah Jong and Mencken, Couéism and Coolidge, Listerine and Lindbergh…	OL1212453W
American commodities in an age of empire	Mona Domosh	American Commodities in an Age of Empire is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building ear of America in the late …	OL13255710W
Crucible of freedom	Eric Leif Davin	Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and hierarchical America which existed before. In the process, class politics re-def…	OL15026823W
A nation of immigrants	Susan Forbes Martin	"Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony …	OL15457285W
Uses of a Whirlwind	Team Colors Collective	"In the midst of a moment defined by international crises, community devastation, increasing injustice, and ruptures in the fabric of everyday life, winds of resistance continue to emerge and to circ…	OL15673628W
Object matters	Nicole Vitellone	"During the mid-1980s the object of the condom became associated with the prevention of HIV/AIDS. In this book Nicole Vitellone investigates the consequences of this shift in the object's meaning." "…	OL15881247W
Home front and the economy	Tim Cooke	"In an alphabetical almanac format, describes the civilian life during the U.S. Civil War"--Provided by publisher.	OL15901697W
Presimetrics	Michael Philip Kimel	The authors, Mike Kimel and Michael E. Kanell have gathered and analyzed data on more than a dozen critical national issues including GDP, personal income, health care, jobs, national security, educa…	OL15909372W
Teenage refugees from Mexico speak out	Gerry Hadden	Six teenagers tell about their experiences in immigrating to the United States for the opportunities which elude them in Mexico because of its political and economic instability.	OL16029415W
The American bourgeoisie	Julia B. Rosenbaum,Sven Beckert	"What precisely constitutes an American bourgeoisie? Scholars have grappled with the question for a long time. Economic positions-the ownership of capital, for instance-most obviously defines this gr…	OL16113290W
Re-dressing America's frontier past	Peter Boag	Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag open…	OL16190571W
Sweet heaven when I die	Jeff Sharlet	"No one explores the borderlands of belief and skepticism quite like Jeff Sharlet. He is ingenious, farsighted, and able to excavate the worlds of others, even the flakiest and most fanatical, with u…	OL16239302W
Adolescent development and school achievement in urban communities	Gary Creasey,Patricia A. Jarvis	"This timely volume explores essential themes, issues, and challenges related to adolescents' lives and learning in underserviced urban areas. Distinguished scholars provide theoretically grounded, m…	OL16694705W
This is Who We Were	Scott Derks	A companion resource to the 1940 Census just released by the US National Archives, This is Who We Were, provides the reader with a deeper understanding of what life was like in America in 1940 and ho…	OL17075469W
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth	Steven M. Druker	This book uncovers the biggest scientific fraud of our age. It tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world's food …	OL17385619W
Hard times	Tom Clark	"2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions we…	OL17886706W
O my America!	Sara Wheeler	Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird, and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came …	OL18174699W
Children bound to labor	Ruth Wallis Herndon,John E. Murray	The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfr…	OL18729744W
A History of US	Joy Hakim	Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstructing America, 1865-1890 is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons were roaring acro…	OL18857268W